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116 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
says, that he shall set off for Paris in a month. * And in
another letter to the same, from Stockholm, of October
30th in the same year, he says that he has learnt that a
letter has been printed at Gottenburg, in which it is
pretended that he had received an order at Paris to quit
that city ; but, adds he, that is a pure falsehood, as M.
Creutz, the Swedish ambassador in France, can testify."
We have now adduced all the documents+ we can find
respecting the life of Swedenborg as it was known and
observed by persons distinguished for their intelligence,
piety, and respectability, both in Sweden, Denmark,
Holland, and England. In the testimony to Sweden
borg’s virtues and attainments, thus borne by so many
most unexceptionable witnesses who knew him well, and
against which no opposing testimony whatever, from
persons acquainted with him, can be adduced, we surely
have the most satisfactory confirmation, not only of his
own account of his life and character, but of all that
is advanced, as to his qualifications for the office to
which he declares he was appointed, namely, that of
unfolding the spiritual sense of the Holy Word, and
of explaining the genuine doctrines of the Christian
Religion, and as to the antecedent probability, that he
might be the human instrument selected to communicate
the truths connected with the Second Advent of the Lord,
on the supposition that the time for that event has arrived.
We also see that many men of the very first respectability,
intelligence, and learning, who formed their opinion from
a knowledge of the man as well as of his writings,
believed, during his life-time, that he actually was such
an instrument.
* See New Jerusalem Magazine, p. 142. These letters will be
adduced below.
+ Except one respecting his having a fever, and being delirious,
&c., propagated by Wesley in his Armenian Magazine, the refu
tation of which will be adduced in its proper place below.
See above p. 23 note.
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